I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
